Deciding children's futures
Subtitle: an expert guide to assessments for safeguarding and promoting children's welfare in family court
By: Joyce Scaife
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780415596350
Subjects: Social work with children; Child welfare; Domestic relations courts; Public welfare
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Interviewing; title: Assessment of personality, profile and relationship context; title: Special issues in the assessment of adults; title: Assessment of parenting; title: Assessment of children and young people; title: Assessment of attachment; title: Risk, safety, protective factors, and needs assessment; title: Placement, residence, and contact arrangements; title: Theoretical considerations, data synthesis, and formulation; title: Postscript; title: References; title: Glossary; title: Appendix 1 assessment methods for children's attachment and adult romantic; title: Relationships; title: Appendix 2: questionnaires for assessment of adults; title: Appendix 3: questionnaires for the assessment of care-giving; title: Appendix 4: examples of actuarial and consensual family risk assessment instruments; title: Appendix 5: the process of application for a care order; title: Appendix 6: supplementary information relevant to expert witnesses in england and; title: Wales; title: Author index; title: Subject index.